Teays Valley Church of God in Scott Depot will have a groundbreaking at 2 p.m. April 6 as the first step of developing a 74-acre site known as Teays Valley Acres east of Rocky Step on Teays Valley Road.

Plans call for a construction project that will include a recreation park, conference site and community center that will also serve as the church building.

"God has given us a vision to serve our community by meeting the needs of the whole person," said the Rev. Melissa Pratt, the church's pastor. "This is the first step in a multi-phase plan to create a space that is open for our community to use every day of the week."

Site preparation is to begin in late April with PRAY Construction. The initial phase is expected to cost a half million dollars. Plans call for selling the current building and using those funds toward the more than $4 million building project.

The church family put a for sale sign last fall on its current facility located at 6979 Teays Valley Road. The asking price of $2.2 million includes the church building as well as two houses located on the property. One house is now used as an office building and the other as a community center.

Pledges so far total $800,000.

Church attendance averages 425 and membership about 600.

"We went to two services two years ago to have some breathing room," Pratt said.

"We welcome conversations with anyone interested in our project," Pratt said. "We would love to have more community partners come alongside us in this venture. It's a big task but we serve a big God. Believing he has called us to see this dream through, we will trust him to provide all of the resources needed."

For more information, call the church office at 304-757-9222.

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WORK on a 3 million flagship church could begin as early as May after it was granted planning approval.

Plans to replace Newtowns Hope Community Church at Dolfor Road with a new church were approved on Thursday by Powys County Council (PCC).

The Rev Alan Hewitt, senior minister at the church, said work to demolish the existing building could begin in May, subject to the completion of agreements over a temporary home for its congregation and day nursery.

Last month the church was given planning approval to use part of Newtowns Pryce Jones building for worship while construction of its new home is carried out.

However, contracts have not yet been completed and the church is also still in discussions over a venue for its day nursery.

Construction work is expected to take around 14 months with the building opening in 2015.

Mr Hewitt said the congregation is thrilled at the latest development.

He said: We are delighted to receive the news that we can move ahead with our plans to vastly improve the facilities we can offer to our community.

During the last few years we have explored many different options by which we could make further provision for our Church activities, but finally came to the conclusion that the best long-term option was to demolish and erect a brand new building.

The new facility will be more functional, more energy efficient, more spacious and will be a vast improvement on our current premises enabling us to provide better services to our community.

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The former Bradford Industries site at 1857 Middlesex St. in Lowell is slated to be the eventual permanent home of the Lowell Collegiate Charter School. SUN / DAVID H. BROW

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LOWELL -- After failing to move into a permanent location on Middlesex Street last fall, the Lowell Collegiate Charter School will again have to postpone its move there this fall as sale negotiations for the site have stalled and it has run out of time for construction.

The charter school, operated by SABIS Educational Systems, plans to renew its lease for another year at the Transfiguration Greek Orthodox Church on Father John Sarantos Way, The Sun has learned.

The school will settle for another year there because construction at the former Bradford Industries warehouse site will not be completed by the beginning of the school year. That site, 1857 Middlesex St., in the Highlands section of Lowell, is slated to be the eventual permanent home of the school.

"The Lowell Collegiate board of trustees and its representatives are in the midst of facility negotiations and it would not be appropriate to comment at this time," according to a statement from Jose Afonso, SABIS Educational Systems' director of business development. "As soon as we're able to disclose additional information, we will do so."

The Lowell Collegiate Charter School initially planned to move to the permanent Middlesex Street site for the 2013-2014 school year. However, those plans were stalled a year ago because of delays in approvals from the city, Afonso said a year ago.

Planning Board members delayed voting on the project to seek more information about the effect the school would have on traffic. Neighborhood groups opposed the project because of concern about the traffic impact on an intersection that was already rated one of the worst in the state -- Wood and Middlesex streets.

Afonso said a year ago he thought the approvals would be granted in February. The final approval came on March 4, 2013, which Afonso said wasn't enough time to construct a 45,000-square-foot building for fall 2013.

Now with sale negotiations taking longer than expected, the Lowell Collegiate Charter School will not move to Middlesex Street for the 2014-2015 school year. The charter school's board and the owners of Bradford Industries on Middlesex Street have been unable to reach an agreement on the property's cost.

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The proposed site of the new Lowell Charter School on Middlesex Street. SUN/ David H. Brow

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LOWELL -- After failing to move into a permanent location on Middlesex Street last fall, the Lowell Collegiate Charter School will again have to postpone its move there this fall as sale negotiations for the site have stalled and they've run out of time for construction.

The charter school, operated by SABIS Educational Systems, plans to renew its lease for another year at the Transfiguration Greek Orthodox Church on Father John Sarantos Way, The Sun has learned.

The school will settle for another year there because construction at the former Bradford Industries warehouse site will not be complete by the beginning of the school year. That site, 1857 Middlesex St., in the Highlands section of Lowell, is slated to be the eventual permanent home of the school.

"The Lowell Collegiate board of trustees and its representatives are in the midst of facility negotiations and it would not be appropriate to comment at this time," according to a statement from Jose Afonso, SABIS Educational Systems' director of business development. "As soon as we're able to disclose additional information, we will do so."

The Lowell Collegiate Charter School initially planned to move to the permanent Middlesex Street site for the 2013/2014 school year. However, those plans were stalled a year ago because of delays in approvals from the city, Afonso said a year ago.

Planning Board members delayed voting on the project to seek more information about the effect the school would have on traffic. Neighborhood groups opposed the project because of concern about the traffic impact on an intersection that was already rated one of the worst in the state -- Wood and Middlesex streets.

Afonso said a year ago he thought the approvals would be granted in February. The final approval came on March 4, 2013, which Afonso said wasn't enough time to construct a 45,000-square-foot building for fall 2013.

Now with sale negotiations taking longer than expected, the Lowell Collegiate Charter School will not move to Middlesex Street for the 2014/2015 school year. The charter school's board and the owners of Bradford Industries on Middlesex Street have been unable to reach an agreement on the property's cost.

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Members of an Owensboro church will remember the destruction of their house of worship. It was a year ago today that First Christian Church burned down after a lightning strike.

"That was a pretty bad night that night," says Bobby Austin, who lives across the street from the site of the fire. He used to hear First Christian Church from home

"I really enjoyed hearing the church bells every Sunday," he says. But not anymore.

"An empty lot and wind. That's about it," Austin adds.

A year later, very little stands at the corner of 7th and J.R. Miller Blvd.

"I've been looking at that church for so long. It's actually kind of weird now," says Austin.

A sign, rocks, and a little foundation. All that's left after the fire leveled the church last March.

"The scope of the fire was really incredible. The heat of the blaze, the smell of it, the sights and sounds," says First Christian Pastor Jacob Caldwell. "I often look at it, and i still can't believe this happened."

Caldwell, a man of faith, is still in disbelief a year later.

"Certainly, on the day of that fire, we were in the valley of dry bones, and we wondered what hope was there, and we were really in a difficult place on that day," he says.

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